On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >This is the main problem. you wrote star primarily for yourself for > >feature you yourself needed, not for other users... > As I already stated: people who try out star usually never use anything else > after that.
they won't bother with star unless it's a drop-in replacement. unfortunately, it's not. > >I think a lot of people are turne off of star because the command switches > >are different. star isn't a "drop-in" replacement. > It is the other way round: GNU tar is not a drop in replacement for Star, > star is much older thanGNU tar and if there is an incompatibility on the > comandline then it is most likely an option that has been impemented by star > before 1989. for whatever reason, star and gnu tar commandline switches are not 1:1 compatible. you can rant all you like about how gnu tar sux and star is superior but it doesn't matter if you can't drop star into a system and have everything "just work". that's partially why postfix is more popular than qmail. because postfix is a drop-in replacement for sendmail, while qmail is not. same situation for star. -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
